THE SEA-SERPENT. 
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true they could pocket a ball, when, with abound, 
the serpent as swift as lightning came through the 
window, and crushed to the ground the men and 
tables, and stopped their game ; but he did n’t 
stop, for out of the other swiftly he fled for the 
sea again, and the boat, which stuck to him close 
as a brother, came to the window, but there in 
twain the rope that Rough with his knife would 
have parted broke, two miles from the place 
whence he started. 
The serpent was gone. Out on the sea they 
saw him swimming rapidly, — saw him shaking his 
frightful mane, and daring them to touch him 
again. A fisherman tells the tale, ’t is said, that 
he saw him at sunset, bloody and red, fighting 
alone with a massive whale, which he killed at 
last with a blow of his tail. 
Sad the scene and mournful the sight the ladies 
saw at Nahant that night ; dead and drowned and 
wounded men were found wherever the snake 
had been. Mournful, mournful ! Albert’s heart 
was broken ; let the tear-drop start ; mourn with 
